Re: [Talk-us] Open.MapQuest.com launched for the US

2010-12-17 Thread Katie Filbert
On Dec 17, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: One minor thing - clicking on the Restaurants icon returns amenity=restaurant, which is intuitive, but in the US, we would also consider amenity = fast_food, food_court, café , and ice_cream to b e included under the 'gastronomy'

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

2010-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/17/2010 12:47 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-12-16 19:39, Paul Johnson wrote: You'd think, but then you have Needles, Arizona, which California keeps trying to claim. OK, I'll take the bait. Huh? Needles has been in a three-way dispute with Nevada, Arizona and California over which

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

2010-12-17 Thread Andrew S. J. Sawyer
The Neddles dispute is not too much different from the dispute NH and Maine had over their boundary stretching from the Piscataqua River to the Isles of Shoals. Mainly it was over whether Seavy Island (Portsmouth Naval Shipyard) belonged to NH or ME. The Supreme Court of the US ruled in two cases

Re: [Talk-us] US-Mexico border precision

2010-12-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Andrew S. J. Sawyer assaw...@gmail.com wrote: Tying back to the US-Mexico boundary it would make sense to obtain the highest-resolution boundary from each side and tag according to above. I don't like boundary clutter but we should be able/try to differentiate